Mboyo Woods denounces defiant Buxtonians as arrogant

Nov 06, 2011 News

…flew out of Guyana yesterday with a promise to remain in contact

Lennox Mboyo Wood, one of the prominent Buxtonians featured on the People’s Progressive Party Civic stage at the recently held public meeting, said that he is going to act as a conduit between the ruling party should they be re-elected and the once troubled village.
Wood arrived in Guyana on Tuesday last and left the country yesterday but said that he will be using information technology to remain in contact with the Buxtonians and the PPP/C if that party is re-elected.

Lennox Mboyo Wood during last Friday’s press briefing while PPP/C campaign spokesperson looks on

Speaking at a party update, Mboyo told media operatives that he considers the public meeting in Buxton last Thursday to be a tremendous success
He said that there were a few hecklers that were taken to the meeting along with a few from Buxton that were organized for a negative purpose.
Wood told media operatives at a Freedom House press briefing that when he took to the stage on Thursday evening he had cause to remind those that were speaking that in a civil society people have a right to protest but when that protest becomes disruptive it is arrogance.
Wood was one of the speakers that had to cope with the defiant Buxtonians chanting so that his message could have been heard over the public address system set up for the meeting
“When arrogance is demonstrated there is nothing fruitful that can come out of that,” said Wood.
The Buxtonian told media operatives, “When I made that point to the audience automatically they realized that something was going wrong with this action that we are taking.”
Observers say that as salient a point Wood was making his report that the audience conceded that what was being done is wrong is a figment of his imagination given that he was one of the speakers that had to cope the most with the noise to be heard and the persons there in attendance generally did not pay him any mind as he spoke.
Wood told reporters that the crowd decided to listen to what he had to say at which point in time he pointed out that in Guyana currently there is a wind of change that allows for new unions to be created.
Mboyo drew reference to the fact that history will recall that the Working People’s Alliance was traditionally at odds with the People’s National Congress. Today they are a part of one unit namely A Partnership for National Unity.
The Buxtonian said that in present day Guyana a democracy prevails that allows for that kind of freedom to be exercised.
He said that the reason that he has aligned himself to the PPP/C is because he believes that “by being here in the PPP/C I can be that bastian of change which is so much desired.”

President Bharrat Jagdeo (centre) during one of his few visits to Buxton. Escorting him is cultural activist Mboyo Wood (right).

Mboyo posited that some persons are intimidated to the point where they feel that they cannot express a political affiliation other than what they had in the past and he used Buxton as an example.
“Buxton is known for a very stronghold for the PNC party but we have brothers and sisters who are not actually committed to that but they are afraid.”
He suggested that they are afraid because of a fear of being stigmatized. “I am not afraid to be labeled…I know what is going to happen tomorrow and from here forth.”
The Buxtonian said that he knows that there will be persons that are going to attach different labels to him such as “crossover…soup drinker, but I will tell them plain…I will let them know clearly that this decision here to join the PPP/C was made by me because in this country we have a freedom to do that.”
“PPP/C needs more people like me”
He said that by extending an olive branch he was able to garner a significant amount of infrastructural development in the community and with more persons coming on board there would be a greater amount of similar progress.